Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 73 84
Rank change year-on-year -19 +11 -29
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,061 1,831 2,406
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.94% 3.68% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 4.12% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,441 884 1,624
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £93,778 £85,292
90th Percentile £107,500 £114,694 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +8.53% -4.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77,915 44,448 67,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.48% 89.27% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 53,724 25,250 43,771
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -19 1,802 £75,000 +3.45% 1,744
UK excluding London -29 1,124 £65,000 -7.14% 744
Work from Home -23 876 £67,481 -3.60% 814
London -16 800 £85,000 +4.29% 1,185
North of England -39 370 £70,000 - 221
South East +31 320 £65,000 -7.14% 182
North West -51 198 £75,000 +7.14% 122
South West -27 128 £57,500 -4.17% 70
Midlands -39 107 £67,500 - 91
North East +22 95 £65,000 +18.18% 40
Yorkshire 0 77 £65,000 -7.14% 59
West Midlands -29 76 £80,000 +14.29% 59
Northern Ireland -16 63 £60,000 +33.33% 37
Wales -13 58 £68,750 +32.21% 17
East of England -39 46 £60,100 -3.84% 36
Scotland -51 34 £60,000 -24.44% 95
East Midlands -50 30 £64,000 +6.67% 32
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 39 (1.89%) Confluence
2 27 (1.31%) Apache Spark
3 16 (0.78%) Apache
4 15 (0.73%) CMS
5 14 (0.68%) IIS
6 13 (0.63%) Camunda
7 9 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.39%) JBoss
8 8 (0.39%) WordPress
9 7 (0.34%) nginx
9 7 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.24%) Drupal
12 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.15%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.15%) Immediacy CMS
13 3 (0.15%) Kentico
13 3 (0.15%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.49%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.24%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.097%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.049%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.097%) Shopify
6 1 (0.049%) Eikon
6 1 (0.049%) RMDS
6 1 (0.049%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,056 (51.24%) AWS
2 881 (42.75%) Azure
3 325 (15.77%) GCP
4 268 (13.00%) Serverless
5 250 (12.13%) GitHub
6 192 (9.32%) SaaS
7 180 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
8 143 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
9 127 (6.16%) Amazon S3
10 108 (5.24%) Amazon EKS
10 108 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 104 (5.05%) GitHub Copilot
12 94 (4.56%) Azure Service Bus
13 85 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
14 70 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
14 70 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
15 69 (3.35%) Amazon SQS
16 63 (3.06%) Azure AKS
17 52 (2.52%) PaaS
18 50 (2.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.23%) Broadband
2 24 (1.16%) Network Security
3 15 (0.73%) DNS
4 14 (0.68%) MQTT
5 13 (0.63%) DMARC
6 9 (0.44%) HTTP
7 8 (0.39%) Internet
7 8 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.39%) VPN
8 7 (0.34%) AMQP
8 7 (0.34%) Firewall
8 7 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.29%) DHCP
9 6 (0.29%) RFID
10 5 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.15%) LTE
11 3 (0.15%) Modbus
11 3 (0.15%) NAS
11 3 (0.15%) SAN
12 2 (0.097%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 306 (14.85%) MongoDB
2 230 (11.16%) PostgreSQL
3 201 (9.75%) NoSQL
4 167 (8.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 160 (7.76%) Elasticsearch
6 122 (5.92%) SQL Server
7 121 (5.87%) MySQL
8 96 (4.66%) Relational Database
9 70 (3.40%) Redis
10 54 (2.62%) DynamoDB
11 49 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (1.36%) Big Data
13 19 (0.92%) RDBMS
14 15 (0.73%) BigQuery
14 15 (0.73%) Data Lake
14 15 (0.73%) Pinecone
15 12 (0.58%) Db2
15 12 (0.58%) DTS
16 10 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 271 (13.15%) Git
2 189 (9.17%) GitLab
3 163 (7.91%) Jenkins
4 64 (3.11%) JUnit
5 63 (3.06%) JIRA
6 54 (2.62%) TeamCity
7 47 (2.28%) Cucumber
8 39 (1.89%) Mockito
9 37 (1.80%) Cypress.io
10 33 (1.60%) Claude Code
11 32 (1.55%) Maven
12 24 (1.16%) Selenium
13 22 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 17 (0.82%) CircleCI
14 17 (0.82%) SonarQube
15 15 (0.73%) Postman
15 15 (0.73%) Spock
16 13 (0.63%) JMeter
16 13 (0.63%) REST Assured
17 12 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 520 (25.23%) Finance
2 403 (19.55%) Social Skills
3 213 (10.33%) Public Sector
4 185 (8.98%) Banking
5 149 (7.23%) Law
6 148 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 136 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
8 116 (5.63%) Retail
9 82 (3.98%) Legal
10 62 (3.01%) Financial Institution
10 62 (3.01%) Marketing
11 43 (2.09%) Back Office
12 33 (1.60%) Aerospace
13 29 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.36%) Legal Technology
15 24 (1.16%) Games
16 21 (1.02%) Advertising
17 20 (0.97%) Front Office
18 17 (0.82%) Telecoms
19 15 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 765 (37.12%) Developer
2 495 (24.02%) Senior
3 372 (18.05%) Software Engineer
4 344 (16.69%) Lead
5 292 (14.17%) Architect
6 204 (9.90%) .NET Developer
7 182 (8.83%) Senior Developer
8 167 (8.10%) Full-Stack Developer
9 156 (7.57%) Java Developer
10 132 (6.40%) Java Engineer
11 123 (5.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 119 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
13 105 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
14 101 (4.90%) Principal Engineer
15 84 (4.08%) Software Developer
16 77 (3.74%) Lead Software Engineer
17 73 (3.54%) Lead Developer
18 72 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
19 57 (2.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 55 (2.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 553 (26.83%) .NET
2 443 (21.49%) React
3 427 (20.72%) Node.js
4 354 (17.18%) Spring
5 321 (15.57%) Spring Boot
6 304 (14.75%) RESTful
7 282 (13.68%) REST
8 261 (12.66%) Kafka
9 246 (11.94%) ASP.NET
10 227 (11.01%) .NET Core
11 222 (10.77%) AngularJS
12 217 (10.53%) Vue
13 199 (9.66%) ASP.NET Core
14 117 (5.68%) Blazor
15 105 (5.09%) ASP.NET Web API
16 98 (4.75%) .NET Framework
17 95 (4.61%) HTML
18 92 (4.46%) CSS
19 81 (3.93%) RabbitMQ
20 78 (3.78%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 637 (30.91%) Cloud Native
2 355 (17.22%) Distributed Systems
3 144 (6.99%) Product Ownership
4 109 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
5 106 (5.14%) Enterprise Software
6 75 (3.64%) Onboarding
7 53 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
8 47 (2.28%) AI Agents
9 45 (2.18%) Public Cloud
10 42 (2.04%) Virtual Team
11 37 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
12 34 (1.65%) e-Learning
13 31 (1.50%) Video\Live Streaming
14 27 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
14 27 (1.31%) Over-the-Top Content
15 26 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
16 24 (1.16%) Management Information System
17 23 (1.12%) Algorithms
17 23 (1.12%) Data Structures
18 20 (0.97%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 137 (6.65%) Linux
2 50 (2.43%) Windows
3 22 (1.07%) Unix
4 21 (1.02%) CentOS
4 21 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.29%) Android
8 5 (0.24%) AIX
9 4 (0.19%) Debian
9 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.097%) VMS
11 1 (0.049%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,077 (52.26%) CI/CD
2 983 (47.70%) Agile
3 728 (35.32%) DevOps
4 727 (35.27%) Software Engineering
5 584 (28.34%) Full-Stack Development
6 502 (24.36%) Mentoring
7 442 (21.45%) AI
7 442 (21.45%) Event-Driven
8 426 (20.67%) Containerisation
9 412 (19.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 407 (19.75%) Test Automation
11 404 (19.60%) Infrastructure as Code
12 373 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
13 289 (14.02%) Scrum
14 287 (13.93%) Technical Leadership
15 275 (13.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 249 (12.08%) TDD
17 229 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
18 224 (10.87%) Clean Code
19 222 (10.77%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 695 (33.72%) Java
2 575 (27.90%) C#
3 508 (24.65%) SQL
4 477 (23.14%) Python
5 467 (22.66%) JavaScript
6 382 (18.53%) TypeScript
7 104 (5.05%) Go
8 55 (2.67%) Ruby
9 45 (2.18%) C++
10 41 (1.99%) PHP
11 40 (1.94%) Bash
12 37 (1.80%) Scala
13 28 (1.36%) PowerShell
14 26 (1.26%) Bicep
15 25 (1.21%) Kotlin
16 22 (1.07%) Rust
17 20 (0.97%) C
17 20 (0.97%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.63%) Groovy
19 12 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 288 (13.97%) Security Cleared
2 192 (9.32%) SC Cleared
3 190 (9.22%) Degree
4 84 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (3.93%) DV Cleared
6 72 (3.49%) AWS Certification
7 46 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (1.41%) CISSP
9 27 (1.31%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.87%) Master's Degree
11 15 (0.73%) CISM
12 14 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.49%) DBS Check
13 10 (0.49%) MBA
13 10 (0.49%) PhD
14 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.19%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (10.14%) QA
2 88 (4.27%) Accessibility
3 38 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (1.70%) GDPR
5 34 (1.65%) WCAG
6 19 (0.92%) NIST
7 17 (0.82%) NCSC
7 17 (0.82%) SOC 2
8 16 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.58%) Data Quality
9 12 (0.58%) GRC
10 10 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.24%) PSD2
16 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.19%) SEPA
17 3 (0.15%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 588 (28.53%) Docker
2 34 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.24%) NDS
4 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.19%) Firmware
5 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.15%) KVM
7 1 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 623 (30.23%) Kubernetes
2 361 (17.52%) Terraform
3 111 (5.39%) Ansible
4 92 (4.46%) Grafana
5 54 (2.62%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.26%) Argo
7 23 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (0.87%) Puppet
9 17 (0.82%) Kibana
10 11 (0.53%) Cilium
11 6 (0.29%) HP Fortify
11 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.24%) Podman
13 4 (0.19%) Packer
14 3 (0.15%) Kubeflow
15 2 (0.097%) MIIS
15 2 (0.097%) Rancher
16 1 (0.049%) Fluentd
16 1 (0.049%) logstash
16 1 (0.049%) Nagios
Vendors
1 329 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 96 (4.66%) Google
3 68 (3.30%) Oracle
4 39 (1.89%) OpenAI
5 36 (1.75%) Splunk
6 27 (1.31%) Dynatrace
6 27 (1.31%) Typelevel
7 23 (1.12%) AppDynamics
7 23 (1.12%) IBM
8 21 (1.02%) Databricks
8 21 (1.02%) Okta
9 20 (0.97%) ForgeRock
10 14 (0.68%) OneLogin
10 14 (0.68%) SAP
11 13 (0.63%) Adobe
11 13 (0.63%) Salesforce
11 13 (0.63%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.58%) ServiceNow
13 11 (0.53%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.39%) OpenText